Advancing Maintenance Maturity of Distributed IoT Applications with AWS Greengrass and AWS Step Functions

AWS Greengrass brings autonomous control and compute to the edge where as  AWS Step Functions makes it easy to coordinate the components of distributed applications In this post I will look at how to leverage these services to coordinate components of distributed IoT applications. In this ever shrinking globalised world, margins are being squeezed tighter … Read more

Lessons Learnt Building An AI-Powered People Counter

Recently I started working for a relatively new AWS partner (V2 Digital) leading a team of builders. I author this post 4 months after AWS Sydney Summit 2024. Our goal for summit was simple. How do we differentiate ourselves from all of the other AWS partners out there? We didn’t want to blend in to … Read more

Cost Optimisation In The Cloud – Practical Design Steps For Architects and Developers – Part 1

Cost. I have been fortunate to work for and help migrate one of Australia’s leading websites (seek.com.au) in to the cloud and have worked for both large public cloud vendors. I have seen the really good, and the not so good when it comes to architecture. Cloud and cost. It can be quite a polarising … Read more